McCormick & Company, Incorporated
MKC Consumer Defensive Packaged Foods
McCormick & Company, Incorporated’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended November 2025) was $6.8 billion, up 1.73% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to August 2026, revenue grew 17.4%, EPS fell 53.8%, free cash flow fell 45.6% and total debt fell 4.77%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for ten consecutive years, revenue growth for ten; insiders bought in the last twelve months.
Follow MKC
McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC) Debt to equity
McCormick & Company, Incorporated's debt to equity at the end of the quarter to 31 August 2026 was 0.5×, down 0.1× from fiscal 2025 (0.6×). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.6× (fiscal 2025) to 1.9× (fiscal 2017) — the current reading is the lowest in ten years. That is above the Packaged Foods industry median of 0.2× and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 0.3×.
Debt to equity, annual
Embed this chart
Annual newest first
| Period | Debt to equity | Change |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 0.6× | (13.65%) |
| FY2024 | 0.7× | (10.86%) |
| FY2023 | 0.8× | (2.22%) |
| FY2022 | 0.8× | (22.32%) |
| FY2021 | 1.1× | 5.12% |
| FY2020 | 1.0× | (5.34%) |
| FY2019 | 1.1× | (17.13%) |
| FY2018 | 1.3× | (29.93%) |
| FY2017 | 1.9× | 187.54% |
| FY2016 | 0.6× | (13.27%) |
Quarterly newest first
| Period | Debt to equity | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | 0.5× | 1.78% |
| May 2026 | 0.5× | (0.40%) |
| Feb 2026 | 0.5× | (23.70%) |
| Nov 2025 | 0.6× | (6.15%) |
| 43 more quarters | Free account |
Against its own ten years
Debt to equity against peers
| Company | Debt to equity |
|---|---|
| SFD Smithfield Foods, Inc. compare | 0.3× |
| HRL Hormel Foods Corporation compare | 0.4× |
| MKC McCormick & Company, Incorporated | 0.5× |
| DAR Darling Ingredients Inc. compare | 0.7× |
| SJM The J. M. Smucker Company compare | 1.2× |
| GIS General Mills, Inc. compare | 1.8× |
| LW Lamb Weston compare | 2.2× |
| JBS JBS N.V. compare | 2.7× |
| MICC The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V. compare | 3.4× |
| Packaged Foods industry median | 0.2× |
| Consumer Defensive sector median | 0.3× |
| Market median | 0.1× |
What Debt to equity is
Debt to Equity Ratio shows how much a company relies on borrowed money compared with the money its shareholders have in the business.
(Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt) ÷ Shareholders Equity (Total)
More on MKC
- Revenue
- Net income
- EPS (diluted)
- EBITDA
- Free cash flow
- Operating cash flow
- Gross margin
- Operating margin
- Net margin
- Free cash flow margin
- P/E ratio
- P/S ratio
- P/B ratio
- Price to free cash flow
- EV/EBITDA
- EV/Sales
- EV/FCF
- Return on equity
- Return on assets
- Return on invested capital
- Current ratio
- Total debt
- Shares outstanding
- Book value per share
- Revenue growth
- Piotroski F-score
- Altman Z-score
- Beneish M-score
- The full statement